Cybermax wrote:...
Mjeeehhh.. dunno... Ubuntu is kinda pseudo-derivative of Debian, so i guess its "Debian stable" ie. Debian Stretch with horribly outdated packages
But learning how package pinning and schtuff works would not be horribly wrong
Not really...
Canonical rebuild all the Debian source packages and cherry-pick from testing, etc...
So it really is it's own distribution. They have their own mirrors and in-house built, binary packages.
Linux-Mint on the other hand...
Pull the vast majority of their
binary packages directly from the
Canonical servers.
Then they "develop" a mere handful, of their own packages.
The packages, they develop. are served up from their own servers, under a different (conflicting) release codename...
Boy, what a trainwreck and certainly not a true "Linux Distribution"...
At best Linux Mint (mainline edition) is just another wannabe Ubuntu respin.
Bob